As international arrivals to Angkor collapse in 2026, the province is turning to a new edition of the Cambodia Branding Forum, on 29 September in Siem Reap, to reposition the destination around active and adventure tourism.

Bernard pays in cash. Always. It is, along with the stool and the refusal to walk, one of the three pillars of his civilisation.

Born in Virginia to a Cambodian mother and settled in Hawaii, Darny Chau strings together small parts on the biggest shoots in the Pacific. Her face has passed through Magnum, Hawaii Five-0 and, last year, Disney's Lilo & Stitch. A portrait of one of the screen's background figures.

Two months before the 20th Francophonie Summit and a state visit by Emmanuel Macron, Paris and Phnom Penh are picking up the pace. Trade rose 17.5% in 2025 and three infrastructure projects were selected in July. France's weight in the kingdom nonetheless remains small next to China's.

At the gates of Kampong Dewa, on the road to Otres, a twenty-five-storey tower has redrawn the Sihanoukville skyline. Cambodge Mag spent a late-August weekend there under a monsoon sky. This is the first of five episodes: the arrival, a lobby watched over by a legendary archer, a room that opens onto the hills and, at two o'clock, a tea that takes the high ground.

By the sea, three old villas built for a governor, a relative of the king and a senior customs official tell, between them, the whole fate of Kep: colonial splendour, the war that swallowed everything, then a patient rebirth carried by lovers of Khmer heritage. This is the story of Knai Bang Chatt.

As American bombs rained relentlessly on neighboring Vietnam, an old general in uniform, Charles de Gaulle, came to remind the world's powers that Asia belongs to no one.

A few dozen minutes off the coast of Kep, a former wartime outpost is being reborn as a sanctuary for Cambodia's marine life. Marine Conservation Cambodia, a partner of Kep West's Art for Kep programme, runs its research base here — and Kep West organises trips out to the island for guests curious to see the work firsthand.

Bags, hats, baskets, mats, table mats and cups: in Arey Ksat, Kandal province, Cambodian artisan enterprise Maya Handicrafts turns grey sedge, locally known as 'Chorjod', into pieces sold both at home and abroad.